Sustainability Plan and Future Prospects of city Ports of Brindisi and Igoumenitsa

DOCK-BI “Development Of Connections between the Key ports of Brindisi and Igoumenitsa” is an infrastructural project fi nanced by Interreg V-A Greece-Italy Programme 2014/2020 aimed at upgrading port areas and cross-border ferry connectivity between the key ports of Brindisi and Igoumenitsa.
The Consortium of Industrial Development Area of Brindisi (ASI Brindisi Consortium) is the lead benefi ciary of this project while partners are: the Southern Adriatic Sea Ports Authority (IT), the Municipality of Brindisi (IT), the Igoumenitsa Port Authority (GR) and the Municipality of Igoumenitsa (GR).
Since maritime transport plays a key role in the local economies of the two countries, DOCK-BI faces a common cross-border challenge: to improve the unsatisfactory multimodal accessibility and fi ll in the lack of integration and interconnection of transport modes between the two ports. This is through implementing strategic infrastructural interventions able to boost maritime transport and improve accessibility and integration with ports’ adjacent areas. To fulfi ll this objective, the project foresees some infrastructural strategic interventions aimed at fostering maritime transport and improving accessibility and integration with the areas adjacent to the two ports.
Not only passengers, tourists and economic operators, but also inhabitants, transport stakeholders and port authorities will directly and indirectly benefi t from a modern and enhanced cross-border mobility between Italy and Greece thanks to the infrastructural interventions foreseen by DOCK-BI.

Project duration: 20.12.2018 – 31.10.2023 | Total budget: €3.562.315,67 | EU co-fi nancing (ERDF): €3.027.968,15

Elisabetta Venezia, Ph.D., MSc, MA, Adj. Professor and Researcher in Applied Economics at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro”. She teaches Economic Evaluation of Investments, Transport Economics, and Economics of Transport Mobility. Her research activity is concentrated on: sustainable transport, economic evaluation of infrastructures and projects, cost and benefi ts analyses, equity, and travel behavior. She is the author of more than 100 publications, and she is an active referee of several scientifi c journals. She is a coordinator/component of several research project groups at national and international levels.

Mariateresa Gattullo is an Associate Professor of Economic and Political Geography at the Department of Economics and Finance at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro.” As a lecturer in various courses at the University, she has directed her research towards analyzing local development pathways, studying the dynamics of local and supralocal networks, and exploring the theme of civil economy and the common.

Andrea Santoro is a senior project manager specializing in the management and reporting of Interreg projects, with a strong focus on the sustainable transport fi eld. Since 2013, he has been a partner at Orange Public Management srl, where he has overseen more than 100 European Territorial Cooperation projects. A graduate in Economics and Commerce from the University of Lecce, he holds the ISIPM-Base Certifi cation in Project Management and has performed First Level Control for projects funded by several Interreg Programmes. He has also served as a lecturer at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro” in the fi rst-level Master’s program “European Fund Programming, Design, and Reporting.”